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Google spins up agentic SOC to speed up incident management

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At Google Cloud’s virtual Security Summit this week, the organisation has shared more details of its expanding vision around safeguarding artificial intelligence (AI), both in terms deploying AI’s capabilities in the service of improving resilience with new agentic security operations centre (SOC) capabilities and features, and securing its customers’ future AI development projects. Google leadership…

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Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2025

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Nominations are now open for the 2025 Computer Weekly list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology. Women make up around 20% of the people working in tech and digital roles in the UK, and each year, we aim to showcase these women to create awareness of the incredible underrepresented talent in the sector…

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Investing in diverse business could boost UK equity market

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More investment in businesses led by women and ethnic minorities could increase the UK equity market by 13%, according to research. Government-led initiative Investing in Women Code found that though its signatories are making progress when it comes to funding female founders, research from The Gender Index shows the number of active female-led companies in…

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Attacker could defeat Dell firmware flaws with a vegetable

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Over 100 models of Dell laptop PCs across the enterprise-centric Latitude and Precision ranges, and many thousands of individual devices, are at risk of compromise through a series of five common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) that affect their security firmware and associated Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces (APIs), according to a disclosure from the Cisco…

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Australian scaleup to bring AI-led data protection to the MoD

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The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected Australian cyber scaleup Castlepoint Systems to run its data environment and prevent breaches, with its artificial intelligence (AI) technology providing oversight of complex datasets and safeguarding them from accidental or intentional leakage. The appointment marks Castlepoint’s first foray into British government work, and comes in the wake…

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Companies House ID verification to start in November 2025

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Companies House is forging ahead with plans to introduce legal identity verification requirements for directors and people with significant control (PSCs) of companies, with enforcement to begin on 18 November 2025. The measures will mean new directors must verify they are who they claim to be to incorporate a new company or be appointed to…

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Scattered Spider victim Clorox sues helpdesk provider

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IT services provider Cognizant is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from one of its customers, which claims lax security procedures enabled the Scattered Spider hacking collective – blamed for the attacks on Marks & Spencer and Co-op Group – to access its systems by convincing a Cognizant helpdesk employee to reset a password. The August 2023…

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Fujitsu to cut at least 100 more UK staff

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Fujitsu has put nearly 500 UK employees on notice of possible redundancy, as it plans to cut more than 100 roles. The supplier could face financial pressure in the coming months when it finally contributes to the huge costs of the Post Office scandal. A question posed to management during a recent company forum requested…

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Interview: Cambridge Consultants CEO Monty Barlow scans for tech surprises

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As university towns, Cambridge and Oxford are oddly disconnected from the UK’s capital when compared with those in other European countries. France’s leading universities are mostly in Paris, by contrast. As David Willetts, former minister for universities and science, and a British Conservative Party politician, writes in his 2017 book, A university education: “England is…

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Can AI Ever Become Conscious? (Or Is It Already?)

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Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Artificial intelligence has surged in use over the last few years. These computer systems that can perform supposedly human-like tasks such as reasoning, learning, and problem-solving have been integrated into our world very quickly, including a $500B Stargate AI project that’s already in the works. But every step forward AI models have taken has…

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